NEW DELHI: Indian government has asked telecom companies to move to SIM cards with 13-digit phone numbers in some cases. And BSNL has already made plans to do so. But the key phrase here is some cases and it won't affect you.
The important bit to note here is that, the 13-digit move won't change your existing number or affect the phone users in In...

Bhubaneswar: India on Tuesday test-fired its indigenously developed intermediate range ballistic missile Agni II from the Abdul Kalam Island off the Odisha coast.
The trial of the surface-to-surface missile was conducted from Launch Complex-4 of Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Balasore district at about 8.38 a.m., said a Defence Ministry official.
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NEW DELHI/ KANPUR: The CBI on Tuesday continued raids at the same three locations in Kanpur for the second consecutive day as it probed a multi-crore loan default by Rotomac Pen's chief Vikram Kothari.
The Central Bureau of Investigation again questioned Kothari along with his wife.
The raided places included office and residential premises of t...

HYDERABAD: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that India with one of the most tech-friendly populations, was best placed to leverage power of technology and leapfrog into future.
He said the country is the hot-spot of digital innovation across all sectors. It not only has a growing number of innovative entrepreneurs but also a growing mar...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday reduced Tamil Nadu's share of Cauvery water and increased Karnataka's share.
It said that given the global status of Karnataka's capital city of Bengaluru, hence it will get more Cauvery river water.
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Washington: Pakistan is developing new types of nuclear weapons, including short-range tactical ones, that bring more risks to the region, America's intelligence chief warned today.
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats' remarks came days after a group of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists struck the Sunjuwan Military Camp in Jammu o...

Amaravati: Former Union minister and veteran TDP leader Bolla Bulliramaiah died of old age-related illness this morning, party sources said.
He was 92.
Bulliramaiah was ailing since some time. He breathed his last at his residence in his hometown Tanuku in Andhra Pradesh today, the sources said.
AP Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, Deputy Chie...

Maharajganj (UP): Seven children from Nepal were rescued and a man was arrested after a human trafficking racket was busted here by a team of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), a senior official said today.
Acting on a tip-off, the SSB rescued the children, who were being taken to Sonouli on the Indo-Nepal border, and arrested one Mahgu Kumar hailing from...

KOCHI: Atleast four person were killed and 11 injured following a blast in a water tank in the Kochi Shipyard on Tuesday, reports said.
The blast occured in Sagar Bhushanship which belongs to ONGC.
The injued persons trapped inside the ship were evacuated and rusched to various hospitals in the city.
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari shock over the m...

NOIDA: A man escaped from his burning car early on Saturday after it caught fire on the Yamuna Expressway in Uttar Pradesh, police said.
The Indigo car was coming from Noida and was headed to Agra when it suddenly burst into flames near Naujheel in Mathura district.
The driver, Yashpal, broke the windowpane to escape the inferno he was trapped in...